Volunteering is sold to us like a product,it's not that it's good in of itself,it's good for your self,it'll look good on your CV

it'll look good on your CVit'll look good on your CVit'll look good on your CV

if only you could see meif only you could see meif only you could see me

you'd see the way my face freezes or flincheseither one,there is a pain that runs across my face like an electric shock

dehumanising someone is like they invented a wireless, handsfree, bluetooth way of stabbing someone,you can do it without touching me,but I can assure the pain in my chest will tell you otherwise,you have cut me

You emoji’d me a happy faceI emoji’d you back a heart.You sent me an okay thing.When did all this start?

You shot me back an iconThat looked rather like a handBut my phone’s screen is smallSo I couldn’t quite understand.I wan’t moving fast enoughTo send an answer right back.You sent another emoji and thatWas when I completely lost track.

I got from you a little thingLike a jack’o’lantern faceSo I sent a laughing iconThat must have been a disgrace.You zapped back three lettersWhich I quickly recognized.W, T and F, in caps appearedLike a specter before my eyes.

You emoji’d me a happy faceI emoji’d you back a heart.You sent me an okay thing.When did all this start?

I typed in a question mark And quickly hit the ‘send’Still hoping against hopeThis madness could endAnd we could begin to speakAs human beings can doIf they use the keyboard lettersAnd at least a finger or two.

I never heard from you againI must have done something bad.Not even a red face emojiOr the one that means you’re sad.I try to stay on top of thingsAs new fashions will unfoldBut this kind of funny picture showQuickly has gotten old.

You emoji’d me a happy faceI emoji’d you back a heart.You sent me an okay thing.When did all this start?

. Some say the scientific method Is the ultimate algorithm and others Prefer prayer.

For symbolists, all intelligence can be reduced to manipulating symbols, in the same way that a mathematician solves equations by replacing expressions by other expressions. Symbolists understand that you can't learn from scratch: you need some initial knowledge to go with the data. They've figured out how to incorporate pre-existing knowledge into learning, and how to combine different pieces of knowledge on the fly in order to solve new problems. Their master algorithm is inverse deduction, which figures out what knowledge is missing in order to make a deduction go through, and then makes it as general as possible.

Tea ­ In its simplicity Can sustain concentration

For connectionists, learning is what the brain does, and so what we need to do is reverse engineer it. The brain learns by adjusting the strengths of connections between neurons, and the crucial problem is figuring out which connections are to blame for which errors and changing them accordingly. The connectionists' master algorithm is back propagation, which compares a system's outputs with the desired one and then successively changes the connections in layer after layer of neurons so as to bring the output closer to what it should be.

Hungry and cold A holy condition A warrior's position in the world

Evolutionaries believe that the mother of all learning is natural selection. If it made us, it can make anything, and all we need to do is simulate it on the computer. The key problem that evolutionaries solve is learning structure: not just adjusting parameters, like back propagation does, but creating the brain that these adjustments can then fine-tune. The evolutionaries' master algorithm is genetic programming, which mates and evolves computer programs in the same way that nature mates and evolves organisms.

Arithmetic ­ A good shit's the metric Of a dying man

Bayesians are concerned above all with uncertainty. All learned knowledge is uncertain, and learning itself is a form of uncertain inference. The problem then becomes how to deal with noisy, incomplete, and even contradictory information without falling apart. The solution is probabilistic inference, and the master algorithm is Bayes' theorem and its derivatives. Bayes' theorem tell us how to incorporate new evidence into our beliefs, and probabilistic inference algorithms do that as efficiently as possible.

I can't believe I won't live forever, therefore, I invented an afterlife to go with reincarnation

For analogizers, the key to learning is recognizing similarities between situations and thereby inferring other similarities. If two patients have similar symptoms, perhaps they have the same disease. The key problem is judging how similar two things are. The analogizers' master algorithm is the support vector machine, which figures out which experiences to remember and how to combine them to make new predictions.

Prepare for a powerful anesthesia Chemical processes irresistible A good and perfect rest

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--Domingos, Pedro, The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, Basic Books, 2015.

disconnect me- rip out these wires needlessly transmitting data points of zero's and one's, linking up in a systematic corruption of who i am and who i want, mechanical neurons lighting fires in my heart and brain, pulsing until they burn out into ashes and dust just another singed electronic unfeeling part of me that will only result in catastrophic system failure.and i can't switch off.its the only warmth i know will stay.its the only warmth i ever get around me.

The end of my job interview,For a legal marijuana grow house,Ends with the standard,"Please tell us about yourself, Jojo"And I take a sip,From my Days Inn coffeewater,Savoring the moments,Before the dam breaks.

"I guess I'll start with the basics,I'm a technologically advanced psycho luddite,Shot into the future,But something keeps tethering me to the past,Whatever that even is,And every time I'm next to a river or granite chunk,I feel this peace that things are even somewhat permanent,Unlike the 24/7 news cycle,Which grinds my food into shit,The stress that powers the universe I suppose.

And I can remember back in J-school,Being really excited about living in the hole,And calling up the cops for grisly details,But then the next day,Something else would happen,And it was like yesterday,Totally erased.

I just didn't get it.

And so I rejected the socialization of modernity,In favor of roaming this Brave New World,With nothing but my own mind,People are always trying to take that away from you,And now I'm here,Because I enjoy talking to plants,More than people."

The hippy chick,With some great pit hair,Looks up from her laptop,And gives me a small grin.